Start-Up Confessions is the hilarious and unashamedly frank story of the founding and funding of one of the UK's most successful start-ups. Opening up about both ambition and frequent failure, co-founder and serial entrepreneur Gauthier van Malderen argues that progress in start-ups is in moving from one failure to the next as fast and as cheaply as possible 'learning fast enough not to repeat the truly expensive mistakes'. But this story of a company's growth is also an accessible and practical guide to founding and running your own business. It offers essential advice on fundraising and pitching to investors and hiring key staff, shows how to manage status, salaries and expectations as you move from a few people in a room to a thriving business. And it shows you how to scale the structure, how to work with the board and how to establish a thriving company culture without losing your soul.